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Airborne 12.09.16

Aero-Terms!

Aero-Terms are designed to be a daily reminder of the terms,
names, acronyms and explanations of the unique language that
populates the aviation world. Aerospace, sport aviation, fixed
wing, helo, you name it... it's all fair game.

Aero-Terms should serve as a quick but intriguing reminder of
the terms you may use every day, or an introduction to an aspects
of the Aero-World you may not yet be familiar with. ANN also
encourages readers to go beyond the FMI link, and further research
any intriguing terms.

Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

An orbiting telescope that collects light
from celestial objects in visible, near-ultraviolet, and
near-infrared wavelengths. The telescope was launched April 24,
1990 aboard the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery. The
12.5-ton tube-shaped telescope is 43 ft long and 14
ft wide. It orbits the Earth every 96 minutes and is mainly powered
by the sunlight collected by its two solar arrays. The
telescope’s primary mirror is 8 ft wide. The
telescope is operated jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). HST is
one of the many NASA Origins Missions, which include current
satellites such as the Far Ultraviolet Space Explorer (FUSE) and
future space observatories such as the Next Generation Space
Telescope (NGST).